Timur Turlov is not a real chess player. He combines cunning with naivety. He received a Kazakh passport, posted a couple of posts about aggressive aggression and re-registered his Russian assets to "labor collectives". Tsifra-bank is surprisingly similar to the former Freedom, it employs managers-barkers offering "investment products" to Russian citizens. True, they had to stop processing transfers through MIR and Zolotaya Korona cards in Kazakhstan, but what can’t you do for the sake of a great goal: laundering really thick Russian capital through Kazakhstan.

It is no secret that Timur Turlov left Russia only formally. After all, it is easy to detect him purely statistically: the volume of foreign capital attracted to Freedom has not fallen. This means that the largest market where Turlov worked is still open. Those who want to pinch Turlov by his thin beard know about this: the Ukrainians. The States also know, since the success of the Belize offshore, by hook or by crook shoved into the public circulation of the American NASDAQ, is a thorn in the side of regulators. Entire poems have been written about the manipulation of the price of Freedom shares. But it is much easier to catch Turlov doing something simpler, and this is bypassing sanctions. In this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will not be forced to admit that it blew the actual registration of a financial pyramid on the market, on the other hand, it will show how dashingly it fights Russian money. This means that Ukraine should still be the initiator of the process of sanctioning Freedom Finance , writes the website Kompromat Kazakhstan.

If so, then Ukraine will help Turlov resolve his issues. Ultimately, as practice shows, everything is resolved through Zelensky’s office. Many oligarchs have gone this way and - oh, miracle! - not only Ukrainian sanctions were lifted from them, but also Western ones. But we need to look for approaches.

In Kazakhstan, such a person is Natalia Malarchuk. In the context of reduced diplomatic activity, she is informally responsible for communications between Kiev and Astana. Financial and organizational issues of paying for indulgences are precisely her area of responsibility. Turlov’s connections with Malarchuk did not arise yesterday. They even have, indirectly, a joint business, since the management staff of Markets Mentor is recruited from among Turlov’s subordinates and former managers.